Molten London Meets The Landscape Printer

If you could partially melt the city of London – then refreeze it: what might that new city look like?Alternatively, if you could build a huge machine, a landscape printer, and feed molten rivers of the city – a new Thames of liquid windows, old domes of churches running like paint – through its cavernous gates and printheads, what might you actually print with it? Could you use the molten city of London as an “ink” for future cityscapes – store it in a vat, and print new continuous bridges, endless architecture, from Kent to northern Yorkshire? A diagonal ribbon of liquid London, solidifying across all of France.

[Image: Instead of colors, you’d have a cartridge full of Islington, full of Holborn, King’s Cross, Little Venice…].

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Of course, what I’d also like to know is: has the Papacy ever considered manufacturing a printer that contains small vials of holy water, so that when you print documents you get actual, Pope-blessed holy water sprayed into the micro-fabric of the paper? You could manufacture entire libraries’ worth of literally holy texts.

Or a Papal laundromat franchise, where the water used to wash your clothing has been blessed by priests.

For that matter, a laundromat that uses liquid London. You wash your clothes in the molten remains of the once-capital British city.

Or you melt all of London down into a perfect sphere – which you then send floating through space… And it sprays holy water everywhere. A traveling spherical laundromat.